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Pulsed laser deposition of NiTi shape memory effect thin films

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O3(100) substrates. We also produced free-standing NiTi films by deposition on KBr substrates and subsequent substrate removal by immersion in water. The presence of the solid-solid phase transformation responsible for the shape memory effect has been demonstrated through temperature-dependent X-ray diffraction and four-probe resistance versus temperature measurements. On cooling the deposited film, the austenite-martensite transformation was measured at around 195 K; on heating the film the reverse transformation was around 250 K. Evidence of the shape-memory effect for free-standing films was obtained in a bending deformation-shape recovery experiment.

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Received: 31 July 1996/Accepted: 6 January 1997

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Ciabattari, F., Fuso, F. & Arimondo, E. Pulsed laser deposition of NiTi shape memory effect thin films . Appl Phys A 64, 623–626 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003390050528

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